Miranda E Wilkerson
Biographic Data
| ID | 748525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda E Wilkerson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda E |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkerson |
| SIGNATURE | WILKERSON M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English
People living in the United States but unable to speak English are often portrayed as "marginal" and "isolated"—socially, economically, and geographically. Such narratives present the learning of English as central to "becoming American" and widely claim that earlier immigrants quickly acquired English. This paper counters such stereotypes. Wilkerson and Salmons present a case study of the extent to which one group of monolingual immigrants lived…
Good Old Immigrants of Yesteryear,” Who Didn't Learn English: Germans in Wisconsin
One myth about language and immigration in North America is that nineteenth-century immigrants typically became bilingual almost immediately after arriving, yet little systematic data has been presented for this view. We present quantitative and qualitative evidence about Germans in Wisconsin, where, into the twentieth century, many immigrants and their descendants remained monolingual, decades after immigration had ceased. Even those who claimed…
Good Old Immigrants of Yesteryear,” Who Didn't Learn English: Germans in Wisconsin
One myth about language and immigration in North America is that nineteenth-century immigrants typically became bilingual almost immediately after arriving, yet little systematic data has been presented for this view. We present quantitative and qualitative evidence about Germans in Wisconsin, where, into the twentieth century, many immigrants and their descendants remained monolingual, decades after immigration had ceased. Even those who claimed…
Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English
People living in the United States but unable to speak English are often portrayed as "marginal" and "isolated"—socially, economically, and geographically. Such narratives present the learning of English as central to "becoming American" and widely claim that earlier immigrants quickly acquired English. This paper counters such stereotypes. Wilkerson and Salmons present a case study of the extent to which one group of monolingual immigrants lived…
Good Old Immigrants of Yesteryear,” Who Didn't Learn English: Germans in Wisconsin
One myth about language and immigration in North America is that nineteenth-century immigrants typically became bilingual almost immediately after arriving, yet little systematic data has been presented for this view. We present quantitative and qualitative evidence about Germans in Wisconsin, where, into the twentieth century, many immigrants and their descendants remained monolingual, decades after immigration had ceased. Even those who claimed…
Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English
People living in the United States but unable to speak English are often portrayed as "marginal" and "isolated"—socially, economically, and geographically. Such narratives present the learning of English as central to "becoming American" and widely claim that earlier immigrants quickly acquired English. This paper counters such stereotypes. Wilkerson and Salmons present a case study of the extent to which one group of monolingual immigrants lived…
Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · German (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American English (1 works) · Census (1 works)